Description: "A dance to the death. A girl who's just as monstrous as H.H. Holmes. A hallway that's constantly changing--and hungry. All of these stories exist in the same place--within the frame of a particular house that isn't bound by the laws of time and space. Following in the footsteps of dark/horror-filled YA anthologies like His Hideous Heart and Slasher Girls and Monster Boys, and Netflix's ground-breaking adaptation of The Haunting of Hill House, this YA speculative fiction anthology explores how the permanence of a home can become a space of transition and change for both the inhabitants and the creatures who haunt them. Each story in the anthology will focus on a different room in the house and feature unique takes on monsters from a wide array of cultural traditions. Whether it's a demonic Trickster, a water-loving Rusalka, or a horrifying, baby-imitating Tiyanak, there's bound to be something sinister lurking in the shadows"--
Brief description: Alex Brown is a queer, biracial Pilipino American writer who loves rooting for the final girl--especially if she's a monster. Alex is also one of the co-creators and producers of The Bridge, a spooky, folklore-filled audio drama podcast that has over 1,000,000 downloads to date. Alex has a short story in The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror, which was an instant Indie Bestseller, and her YA comedy-horror debut, Damned If You Do, was a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection. Alex co-edited Night of the Living Queers, a YA Horror anthology featuring stories solely written by Queer Authors of Color, and which has received multiple starred reviews. In a past life, Alex worked on Supernatural and Netflix's Resident Evil, though she's now traded in her Hollywood lifestyle and is happy to work with queer college kids. She enjoys spending time with her partner and their three chaotic cats somewhere in northern California.
Review Quotes:
"[A] superb ensemble of nightmarish stories about demons of all kinds. [...]Compellingly horrifying."
--Shelf Awareness, starred review
--Kirkus Reviews
"Themes of love, loss, and transition are woven throughout simmering romances and expansive adventures, which come together to build a collection of Haunting of Hill House-inspired tales that is cohesive, reflective, and satisfying."
--Publishers Weekly "[H]aunting and luminous"
--Booklist
"[T]he blend of horror with deeply emotional scenarios creates a poignant and evocative whole [...] with some truly haunting tales. Purchase where anthologies circulate well."
--SLJ "Eerie and poignant, The House Where Death Lives is a bewitching collection--a striking, shivery tribute to warm hands, cold claws, and broken hearts."
--Ann Fraistat, bestselling author of A Place for Vanishing and What We Harvest